Next retro comms project? - HECnet

21 Oct 2009

Would you be willing to sell it?  

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Steve Davidson <jeep at scshome.net> wrote:
I have a copy of PATHWORKS for MAC.   It includes a DECnet client.
Haven't used it for years though...

-Steve

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From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE on behalf of Sampsa Laine

Sent: Wed 10/21/2009 09:41
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] Next retro comms project?

More ideas I just thought of:

Amiga - I've got a DECNET package here for my Amiga, unfortunately the
license key only works with one node address - and I naturally have no
idea what that address is. I'll have a play once my Amiga is up and
running again though, the product looks pretty full-featured (comes
with MAIL, CTERM and file transfer client and server).

Old-school (68K) Macs: I don't know where I got this idea but I think
there might be a PATHWORKS client for classic Macs? Anybody ever use it?

Sampsa

On 21 Oct 2009, at 14:31, Steve Davidson wrote:

...

 SNA can run on multiple physical transports using the gateways.
 Serial, X.25, network adapter (specialized), etc are available.   The
 SPD's specify what is supported.   Like Johnny said however, finding
 some of this hardware may be a problem.   One of the SPD's mentions
 an intermediate server that I have never seen/heard of.

 Sort of reminds me of the fun and games (not to mention expense) to
 get
 SNA to talk to Netware.

 -Steve

 -----Original Message-----
 From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE on behalf of Sampsa Laine
 Sent: Wed 10/21/2009 09:27
 To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
 Subject: Re: [HECnet] Next retro comms project?

 I thought SNA mostly ran on Token Ring or something?

 On 21 Oct 2009, at 14:24, Johnny Billquist wrote:

  There was a SNA product for RSX as well.
Don't know if it required
 special hardware as well.
 But I very much doubt anyone will be able to find that now
 anyway. :-)

         Johnny

 Steve Davidson wrote:
> It can via the gateway software.   I see several and it appears that
> many
> (if not all) require specialized hardware for the
> interconnection.   A
> search for (vms sna gateway) will point you to the SPD's.
> -Steve
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE]
> On
> Behalf Of Sampsa Laine
> Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 08:34
> To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
> Subject: Re: [HECnet] Next retro comms project?
> Can VMS talk SNA? If so, I'm in :)
> Sampsa
> On 21 Oct 2009, at 13:31, Fred wrote:
>> On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Sampsa Laine wrote:
>>
>>> Where should we go from here? Setting up our own virtual X.25
>>> PSDN   tunnelled over IP maybe? Something crazy with SNA?
>> SNA! SNA! :)
>>
>> I could set up Hercules here running MVS 3.8J ... ;)    I'm sure
>> the   folks have been able to get SNA to work within the emulator.
>> I set   up Hercules and MVS once, but other than a novelty, I
>> really didn't   do much with it, because most of my associates
>> wouldn't know a   mainframe if it ran them over.   I think it would
>> be interesting to   get something quasi-public (on HECmet) going.
>>
>> Fred
>>
>> ----
>> Lets call it for what it is - "legacy" is a term that people use
>> in a
>> polite but derogatory manner to imply that the future direction
>> they
>> prefer is not that which they view as the current direction. 

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